Joint Replacement Bundled Payments Save Nearly $1K Per Episode
RevCycle Intelligence July 3, 2019
CJR, a joint replacement bundled payments model, saved hospitals and Medicare in its first two years without impacting quality of care, a new report finds.
Hospitals participating in a joint replacement bundled payments model through Medicare saved $997 per episode during the first two performance periods, according to a second annual report on the model conducted by the Lewin Group.
The model, the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR), launched in April 2016. Run by the CMS Innovation Center, CJR is a mandatory bundled payments model that incentivizes nearly all hospitals in 67 geographic regions to improve care quality and total costs of care for lower extremity joint replacements (LEJRs) using a single payment for all the services during a...